Huntsville gazette., 1887-09-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

sion or the nSherleS dispute With the Unit
ed States.
OFFICIAL reports have reached Wash
ington of the recent seizure of the custom
house at Havana.
A MONSTER labor parade traversed the
| streets Of Pittsburgh and Allegheny City,
| Pa, on the Sd,
LoNDoNERs are complaining bitterly of
| the encroachments of Germans in mercan-
| tile, artisan and labor callings OF. the city,
whereby they are being undersold, under
bid and outdone generally by the thrifty
| Teutons.
The acceptance by the Porte of Russa's
| terms for the government of Bulgaria
| pending the election of a new Sobranje
| and later new prince, widens the breach
between Russia and the people of Bull
| garia, and also between the latter and
Prince Ferdinand.
The Government has received official in
formation of the Chinese concessions to
Count Mitkiewicz and his American asso-
| ciates.
THE Crown Prince of Germany left
England on the 3D. for the Tyrol, accom-
panied by DR.. Mckenzie. The Prince is
much improved in health.
| A WASHINGTON report is to the effect
that Ex-Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania
is to succeed Secretary Lamar as the head
of the Interior Department when the lat
ter goes OH the Supreme Court bench.
UNDER the regency of Prince Luitpold
the debts of the late King of Bavaria are
being rapidly wiped out. King Otto is
hopelessly insane, and his death is
thought to be but a little way off.
THE Wisconsin Central and Chicago, ST.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha indemnity
lands have been declared open to entry
under the pre-emption and homestead
laws.
A MATCH has been made for race be-
tween James D. Morrissey's BanbuIg and
GRATIS Elkwood for $4,000 a side, at
Sheepshead bay, on the 1th inst. The
match has created no little excitement in
Eastern turf circles.
MRS. KILPATRICK is on her way home
with the remains of her husband, the late
General Judson Fitzpatrick. They will be
inferred in Glove Cemetery, near Decker
| town, n. j.
THE National Library Association left
Round Island, N. Y, on the Sd on an ex-
cursion to Montreal. From there they go
to Quebec, Halifax and Boston. Next
years meeting will be held in st. Louis.
SANGER, the messenger boy who carried
the Highest Bidder" souvenirs to En-
gland, did his work SO faithfully and well
that Mr.. Dan Frohman has attached him
permanently to the New York Lyceum
company.
A FIND of genuine anthracite coal is
| said to have been made in the Indian Ter
ritory.
| REV. DR.. PARKER and wife are spending
a few days at Cornwall on the Hudson
whence they go to the Catskills to spend
the remainder of the month.
MRS. JOHN MARTIN and her two-year-
old daughter were fatally burned at Gin
cinnati on the Sd by the upsetting of q
coal oil stove on which Mrs. Martin was
preparing supper.
THE constitutional election in Hawaii
| occurs on the 10Th inst.
JOSEPH BOLTON shot and probably fatally
wounded Captain Miller, whom he found
| in Mrs. Bottoms company at Shelton,
| Conn, on the night of the 4th. Bolton
| was arrested.
| THE THISTLE and the Mayfower had a
little brush in the lower bay at New York
on the 4th. The boats met accidentally
| Mrs. MARY DUNLAP and her six
| months'-old babe were burned to death at
| Penny's coal road, near McKeesport, Pa,
| on the Sd. The woman tried to start the
| fire with coal oil.
ELI WILLIAMS. a well-to-do farmer re-
| siding near Portland, Ind, was shot and
| killed on the night Of the Sd while tres
| passing in a fed of melons belonging to
| Levi Pence. 1t is reported that Pence de-
nies doing the shooting.
| NICHOLAS KERGER, living in Lower st.
Clair township, which adjoins Pittsburgh,
| Pa, refused to allow a number of his
| teamsters to participate in the labor DEM
| onstration on the Cd. In the evening he
| was attacked in q saloon by four of the
men and kicked and beaten until he be-
came unconscious. He died on the 4th.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was present at
and opened the International Medical
Congress in Washington on the 9th. Sec
retary Bayard delivered the address of
| welcome. There is large attendance of
foreign delegates from every civilized
quarter of the globe.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY of the Veteran
Firemen's Association of New York start
ed in special train of palace cars OF the
5th, bound to the Pacific coast
THE business portion of Calico, village
in Northern California, was burned ON the
night of the 18th. Loss, between $4,000
and 100000.
BULGARIA's Prime Minister has notified
Russia that Bulgaria Will loieTatS no lHtei-
ference in her affairs from outside pow
ers.
POINTERS as to the Tariff bill being
formulated by the Administration indi-
cate that it will approximate an equal cut
en- customs duties and internal taxes.
THE post-office at Northern Pacific juno
ton, ten miles from Superior, W is, was
broken into and robbed of $500 on the
night Of the 4th. No clew.
A THEATER horror occurre at Exeter,
England, on the night of th til, caused
by a panic started by cry OF fire. Up
wards of one hundred lives were lost, and
the building was destroyed.
THE Premier of Manitoba has succeeded
in raising loan of $i,000,000 for railway
purposes in bonds of the Province OF
Manitoba. The money will be applied to
the completion of the Red River valley
road, the rails for which are now lying at
Montreal.
THE safe in the Office of the Paris Credit
Mobilier was robbed on the night of the
4th Of 5000 in money. The robber,